[PATCH] nx-emu: fix inverted report of disable_nx

Kyle McMartin kyle at mcmartin.ca
Mon Nov 22 19:47:24 UTC 2010


On Sat, Nov 20, 2010 at 11:03:42PM -0800, Kees Cook wrote:
> This nx-emu commit:
> http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/frob/linux-2.6-roland.git;a=commitdiff;h=b86f45c02494d4cba26caf132e8a178854e812fd
> was intended to replace "exec_shield" with "!disable_nx", but in
> x86_report_nx() it was not correctly inverted resulting in a backward
> report to dmesg about the state of nx-emu.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <kees.cook at canonical.com>

Thanks, applied (to Fedora at least.)

--Kyle


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